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Americans. and he turned up the heat. but he wasn't the only one pushing us to hurry the politicians were to. the ideological department of the central committee of the party was driving us like the dickens to. not just curly off got to know. car you off knew of course that his space flight plans didn't top the list of soviet priorities any dreams of getting into space would remain fantasies until the r seven rocket worked properly. the breakthrough came on august twenty first one nine hundred fifty seven it was the first successful launch of the missile. we had a report so clearly off went to...

More and more military personnel came into the closed region. keeping it all very hush hush was the rule. in the kremlin soviet leader nikita khrushchev and his nuclear weapon strategists were putting their hopes in a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile the r seven. it was the also of his job to carry a free point five ton nuclear warhead across a range of at least eight thousand kilometers. the toss wasn't to build a rocket to transport something into space the specific aim was to get a nuclear warhead from point a to point b. with point a in the soviet union and point b. in the us...